On 09/17/12 11:14, Lorenzo Cogotti wrote:
Il 17/09/2012 17:42, Poul-Henning Kamp ha scritto:
In message <[email protected]>, Lorenzo Cogotti writ
es:
Hi,
I was wondering about the possibility of FreeBSD to provide an official
supported graphical environment.
We already do: It's called "X11" :-)
(sending back to mailing list due to a mistake replying personally, I
apologize)
That's surely more of a standard than Linux can provide, considering
Wayland :-)
I meant something more abstract that could provide a default desktop
feel and the possibility of writing more complex GUI interfaces in less
time, so that, for example, I could create a GUI tool while being
consistent with the rest of the environment.
Right now this can't be achieved (in an easy way) without taking into
account Qt, GTK+, X and an enormous number of other toolkits available.
In message <[email protected]>, Lorenzo Cogotti writ
es:
Right now this can't be achieved (in an easy way) without taking into
account Qt, GTK+, X and an enormous number of other toolkits available.
Do what everybody else does: Pick the toolkit you prefer to work in
and move on...
This idea would precisely serve the purpose of removing this need and
eliminate redundancy of toolkits, when it comes to essential utilities
that FreeBSD would want to provide, like devices automounting,
partitioning (taking advantage of the system features) and so on... but
it's just an idea, of course.
I think most FreeBSD developers don't care to do this.
If you want this to happen, you should create your own product. Call it
Cogotti-BSD-Grafix, or whatever you like. Then you take the code base
of FreeBSD, and work very hard to create a stable graphics environment,
package it, and put up your own website advocating it.
If you pick software with the right licenses, you could even sell your
product.
Or if you don't want to do this, find someone else who will. For all I
know, maybe someone has already done this.
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